Card-punching machine.



Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

H. FLEMING. CARD PUNCHING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20. 1910 H. FLEMING.

CARD PUNOHING MAGHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG. 20. 1910.

1,015,619, Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT FLEMING, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR 'IO HARDWICK &

MAGEE COMPANY, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENN-SYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Patented Jan. 23, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT FLEMING, a citizen of the United States,residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in Card-Punching Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to provide that type of machine forpunching jacquard cards known as a repeater with an attachment wherebythe disposition of the openings and blanks in the newly punched orrepeat cards can be changed in respect to the disposition of theopenings and blanks in the primary cards which dictate the punching ofsaid repeat cards.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a vertical longtiudinal sectionof sufiicient of a well known Boyle card punching machine of therepeater type to illustrate my invention; Fig. 2 is a view on anenlarged scale and looking at one end of the attach.- ment whichconstitutes the subject of my invention; Fig. 3 is a like view lookingat the other end of said attachment; Fig. 4; is a longitudinal sectionof part of the attachment taken on the line aa, Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is asimilar view illustrating a different disposition of one of the partsshown therein.

Speaking in a general way, that type of jacquard card punching machineknown as a repeater may be said to consist of a frame a having guidesfor an upper set of horizontally disposed needles 1, 2, 3, 4, etc., fora lower setof reversely arranged horizontal needles 122*, 3 P, etc., andfor a set of vertically disposed punches 1 32 3, etc., the correspondingneedles of the upper and lower sets being connected by means of levers1, 2, 3, etc., so that when a needle of the upper set is moved in onedirection the corresponding needle of the lower set will be moved in theopposite direction.

Each of the needles of the lower set is connected to a bolt '21; whichnormally proj'ects above the upper end of a corresponding punch, andbelow the fixed frame a is a vertically reciprocating frame I) havingjaws 0 with openings for the guidance of the lower ends of the punches.Between these jaws are fed the enchained cards m which are to constitutethe repeat cards, the

primary or dictating cards y being carried by an ordinary card cylinder(l which is caused to reciprocate horizontally at one end of the machineand to partially rotate to the extent of a quarter turn between itssuccessive forward or inward movements.

At the top of the machine is a reciprocating frame f carrying a levelingblock 9 which acts upon the rear ends of the upper set of needles andrestores to normal position such of said needles as may have beenprojected by the action of the primary card. In the usual repeatermachine the primary cards act directly upon the forward ends of theneedles of the upper set and wherever the card is blank thecorresponding needle of the upper set will be projected and thecorresponding needle of the lower set will be retracted, thuswithdrawing its locking bolt to from above the top of the correspondingpunch, thereby, when the frame I) rises, permitting said punch to belifted by the repeat card which is lying between the jaws 0-0,consequently said punch will not perforate the card. Wherever there isan opening in the primary card, however, the corresponding needle ofthe'upper set will fail to be projected and there will be a consequentfailure of retraction of the corresponding needle of the lower set,whose bolt w will therefore remain in projected position so as toprevent rise of the corresponding punch, and the lower end of the latterwill form an opening in the repeat card as corresponding to the openingin the primary card.

Owing to the arrangement of the warp thread in the loom, it frequentlyhappens that the disposition of the blanks and openings in the repeatcards for producing one half of the pattern in the woven web, must bedifferent from the disposition of the blanks and openings in the primarycards which produce the other half of the pattern. In order to efiectsuch change, I interpose between the upper set of needles of therepeater and the reciprocating card cylinder d an attachment consistingof a frame 71 in which are horizontally guided needles 1 2 3 4 etc., onefor each of the needles in the upper set of the repeater, the needles inthe attachment being bent or oflset between their opposite ends so thatthe needles of the repeater will be acted upon in an order differentfrom that in which they would be acted upon directly by the primary cardy.

In the present instance, as will be seen on reference to Fig. 1', theneedles 1 which are acted upon by the topmost row of blanks and openingsin the card act upon the second row of needles 2 in the repeater, theneedles 2 corresponding to the second row of blanks and openings in theprimary card act upon the first row of needles 1 in the repeater, theneedles 3 act upon the needles 7, the needles 4 act upon' the needles 8,the needles 5 act upon the needles 9, the needles 6 act upon the needles10, the needles '7 act upon the needles 3', the needles 8 act upon theneedles 4, the needles 9 actupon the needles 5, and the needles 10: actupon the needles 6, consequently, in the repeat card, the first row ofblanks and openings: will correspond to the second row in the primarycard, the second row in the repeat card will correspond to the first rowin the .primary card, the third to the seventh, the fourth to theeighth, the fifth to the ninth, the sixth to the tenth, the seventh tothe third, the eighth to the fourth, the ninth to the fifth, and thetenth tothe sixth. v

It will be observed on reference to Figs. 2 and 3- that the needles ofthe attachment are disposed groups with intervening spaces wider thanthe distance between the needles themselves, these spaces correspondingto those portions of the card in which the lacing cords are placed.

It is often desirable or necessary to dispose the lacing cords'in' therepeat card differently from the disposition of said cords in theprimary card, thus it will be noted that that end of the attachment atwhich;

the primary card cylinder is located, whichend is illustrated in Fig.2,, the needles are disposed in three roups of which the outer groupscomprise fteen vertical rows each and the central group comprisesfourteen -vertical rows, whereas at that end of the attachment adjacentto the repeater, which end is illustrated in Fig. 2', the outer groupsof .needles are composed of fourteen vertical rows each and the centralgroup of sixteen vertical rows.

In order that changes in the grouping of the needles at the repeater endof the attachment maybe readily efiected, the needle guiding means atthat end of the attach-' mentconsist of vertical bars m-m, there bemgone of the bars on for each vertical 'row of needles, each of which barsis provided with openings for the proper guidance of the needles, thebars on however,

being blank.

The lower ends of the bars m and m are contalned 1n a transverse groove1n the base 'of the frame 2' and the upper ends of said bars arecontained in a similar groove in a' cross bar 2" at the top of theframe.

The bars m are of such length as to fill the grooves at top and: bottombut the bars m are shorter,.so that when said barsm/ are in their normalposition, as illustrated in Fig. 4, there is a space between the base ofthe upper groove and the top of the bar, which is rounded,- as shown,whereby, when it is lifted, as shown in Fig. 5, by means of a suitableimplement inserted in an aperture n in the bar, its lower end will befreed from the lower groove and the bar can then be released by firstswinging its lower end outward and then dropping it until its upper endis free from p the upper groove. When the bars 117/ are thus removed anyde sired rearrangement of the bars m can be effected, and the bars mcan'then be reinserted in the spaces provided by such rearrangement- Theneedles of the attachment are of such length that the slightlateral-'deflection of the rear ends of some of them in respect totheforward ends which this necessitates will not interfere with their freehorizontal movement under the action of the primary card. In order topermit of the ready assembling of the bars m m in the first instance thegrooves for the reception of the ends of said bars are preferably formedby rabbet'ingthe base a" and' top cross bar 2", the groove beingcompleted by the application ofmetal plates 8 tothe ends of the base andcross bar; as shown in Figs. 4: and 5, the. upper plate being, bypreference, of angular form. Instead of having each of the vertical rowsof needles at the rear end of. the attachment guideol a separate baronly those needles may be thusguided which are adjacent to thoseportions of the card in which the lacing cords are likely to be placed,the needles of the other rows being fixedly guided at each end. 7

Although I have shown my invention as applied to" aspecial type ofrepeater card punchingmachine, it should be understood that the latterhas simply been selected for purposes of illustration and that myinvention is not limited inthis respect.

I claim:

1 The combination of a repeater card punching machine with an attachmentinterposed" between the repeater and the primary card cylinder andhaving needles with their opposite ends in different planes, whereby thedisposition of the openings and blanks in the repeat card will bedifierent from their disposition in the primary card.

2. The combination of a repeater card punching machine with anattachment interposed' between the repeater and the primary cardcylinder and having needles acting upon those of the repeater and actedupon by the primary cards, said attachment needles having their oppositeends in different planes, whereby the disposition of the openings andblanks in the repeat card will be different from their disposition inthe primary card.

3. The combination of a repeater card punching machine with anattachment having needles disposed in vertical rows guided at one end inindependent laterally adjustable bars, whereby difl'erent groupings ofthe vertical rows of needles can be effected.

4. The combination of a repeater cardpunching machine with anattachmenthaving needles disposed in vertical rows guided at one end inindependent laterally adjust able bars, whereby different groupings ofthe vertical rows ofneedles can be effected, in combination withremovable separator bars whereby the needle-guiding bars are retained inposition after adjustment.

5. The combination of a repeater cardpunching machine with an attachmenthaving needles disposed in vertical rows guided at one end inindependent laterally adjustable bars, whereby different groupings ofthe vertical rows of needles can be effected, in combination withremovable separator bars whereby the needle-guiding bars are retained inposition after adjustment, said separator bars being adapted at top andbottom to grooves in the attachment but being shorter than the distancebetween the bases of the grooves, whereby they can be removd fromengagement therewith.

6. Thecombination of a repeater cardpunching machine with an attachmenthaving needles disposed in vertical rows guided in independent barsadapted at top and bottom to grooves in the attachment, each groovebeing formed by means of a rabbet in a bar of the frame and a face plateapplied to said rabbeted portion of the bar.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERBERT FLEMING.

Witnesses:

ALBERT N. GARRETT, HARRY L. SMITH.

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